Okay, the term he used was silly, especially to us.
But let me try to defend him here. When you work in "Hollywood" and on set all day every day and with people from the industry all year, every year.....
....you'll start to talk a little like them. You'll try not to at first, but it eventually happens. What I mean by 'talk like them' is, you'll use the Hollywood short hand slang. Its dumb, but its meant to be, because there's no mistake what you mean when you use it on set. Stormraven is right, they just use simple modern terms (as overly redundant as possible sometimes ) so there's no mistake what they mean by the common man. Everyone that works on set is a different person. Each with their own preferred list of things they read. One person my understand one proper term referenced, while the next won't because he/she is into drag racing or something.
I do storyboards for a living. You should listen to our meetings sometimes. We say the silliest references to get our point across. And its not like we're a bunch of apes or anything, its just that we have a lot of stuff to talk about and we don't want to waste a couple of minutes trying to clarify to everyone what one reference meant. And we just grab stuff off the top of our head quickly. When you start talking like that, you're bound to have one or two statements come out like, "Crack team of military knights."
I'm sure someone said at one point, "a fellowship of the most valorious knights" or something. But it went over the head of some 'suit' at the production meeting. He knows what the words mean, but he doesn't know how it applies to the story. So someone just followed it up with " like a medieval version of a commando team". Then the glazed eyes of the 'suit' light up and gets it. This happens a lot.
And let me tell you something, you'll find more quotes like this to complain about as the years go by. Orlando Bloom did it, Clive did it, and more will do it. Just go easy on them okay? Its just silly on-set slang industry people use. They do it out of habit now without realizing it. Some make it a point to suppress that slang when doing an interview, but some are so casual in interviews that they forget to do it. It happens.
